"Ready, Dad?" asked the foreman, a gruff man with a chewing habit.

"Born ready," said David, his voice steady, his eyes bright. He watched the first timbers of the porch splinter and fall. This house. He'd never wanted it. Always hated it. The endless chores, the cramped bedrooms, the constant fights.

He felt a buoyancy in his chest. A weight lifted. The house was nothing now, just a pile of rubble. And he was free.

Emotion: pleased

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.62 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.28

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion pleased. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 pleased stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the pleased emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the pleased vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.728
la0.496
happy0.462
🤩0.433
🥳0.430
Suppressed:
S-0.486
😞-0.481
ness-0.454
😣-0.431
worse-0.401